Waist-to-Hip & Waist-to-Height
A more useful predictor of metabolic risk than BMI alone.
Waist-to-hip & waist-to-height
Better metabolic-risk predictors than BMI alone, especially for South Asians.
Measure waist at the level of the navel and hip at the widest point of the buttocks. Waist-to-height ratio above 0.5 is a strong signal of cardiometabolic risk regardless of BMI.
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